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Blended learning effectiveness: the relationship between student characteristics, design features and outcomes

This paper investigates the effectiveness of a blended learning environment through analyzing the relationship between student characteristics/background, design features and learning outcomes. It is aimed at ...

Authors: Mugenyi Justice Kintu, Chang Zhu and Edmond Kagambe

The possibility of predicting learning performance using features of note taking activities and instructions in a blended learning environment

A formative assessment was introduced to a blended learning course in order to predict participant’s learning performance using measurements of their note taking activity and metrics of their attitudes. The le...

Authors: Minoru Nakayama, Kouichi Mutsuura and Hiroh Yamamoto

Taking social media to a university classroom: teaching and learning using Twitter and blogs

Social media has taken many sectors including the higher education by storm. However, with wide spread fears that social media may be a distractor to pedagogy, this paper investigated how social media facilita...

Authors: Winner Dominic Chawinga

A flexible online platform for computerized adaptive testing

Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) is a field of research originating in psychometrics that has been adopted in the last years for formative and summative assessment activities in educational settings in gene...

Authors: Stefan Oppl, Florian Reisinger, Alexander Eckmaier and Christoph Helm

Do calculus students demand technology integration into learning environment? case of instructional differences

This study evaluated how calculus students’ attitudes towards usage of technology changes according to their learning environment and thinking types at the undergraduate level. Thus, the study attempted to det...

Authors: Eyüp Sevimli

Integration of learning technologies into teaching within Fijian Polytechnic Institutions

In the 21^st century, learning technologies have increasingly become pervasive within various forms of learning environments. Institutions of higher education are increasingly turning to these technologies to reso...

Authors: Shalendra Kumar and Ben Kei Daniel

On-campus or online: examining self-regulation and cognitive transfer skills in different learning settings

This study was set to identify self-regulation skills required for online learning and to characterize cognitive transfer of on-campus and online students. The study included two groups of undergraduate studen...

Authors: Miri Barak, Rania Hussein-Farraj and Yehudit Judy Dori

Students’ acceptance and readiness for E-learning in Northeastern Thailand

The study explored student readiness for online learning in the Northeast of Thailand, using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The survey also explored students’ self-regulation, ...

Authors: Anchalee Ngampornchai and Jonathan Adams

The Internet and Online Pedagogy Editorial

Authors: Begoña Gros, Cristóbal Suárez-Guerrero and Terry Anderson

Fostering innovation in social work and social education degrees: multilingual environment and tools for social change

The article presents an innovative educative experience in higher education in Spain that combines methodology, content and new technologies in a multilingual environment. It presents an experience of implemen...

Authors: Maria Tereza L. Cavalcante, Gisela Riberas and Genoveva Rosa

Students as co-creators of technology-rich learning activities in higher education

This article describes an ongoing study that, ultimately, aims to help students become co-creators of their courses. It discusses methodologies to support student empowerment and engagement.

Authors: Begoña Gros and Marta López

Generic competences acquisition through classroom activities in first-year agricultural engineering students

Generic skills need to be developed by university students to prepare them for lifelong learning. Higher education institutions play a key role in developing appropriate strategies for a competences-based appr...

Authors: Inmaculada Bautista

Pedagogies for the open knowledge society

Learning challenges within the knowledge society cannot be limited to the technological dimension. Learning and education are embedded in economic, political and cultural contexts. Pedagogies reflect this soci...

Authors: Paola Ricaurte

The flipped classroom: for active, effective and increased learning – especially for low achievers

Higher education has been pressured to shift towards more flexible, effective, active, and student-centered teaching strategies that mitigate the limitations of traditional transmittal models of education. Lat...

Authors: Jalal Nouri

Blended learning supported by digital technology and competency-based medical education: a case study of the social medicine course at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Blended courses supported by digital technology (bLearning) and competency-based medical education can be found in different university curricular reform initiatives around the world. Today, it is essential to...

Authors: Elena María Trujillo Maza, María Teresa Gómez Lozano, Andrés Camilo Cardozo Alarcón, Lorena Moreno Zuluaga and Mariana Gamba Fadul

Meta-analysis of research in e-learning published in Spanish journals

E-learning is a way of teaching that presently makes greater sense in the process of democratization of education. This articles describes a meta-analysis performed on Spanish journals found in Social Sciences...

Authors: Julio Cabero-Almenara, Verónica Marín-Díaz and Begoña E. Sampedro-Requena

Virtual empathy as digital competence in education 3.0

The social and interactive dimension has taken on particular relevance with the appearance of new technologies in education, making the capacity for virtual empathy a key competence for promoting learning proc...

Authors: Rafael García-Pérez, Juan-Manuel Santos-Delgado and Olga Buzón-García

Pedagogic dilemmas to flows of knowledge in the age of digital technology

The main purpose of this paper is to argue why we adopted the socio-technical system as a heuristic device. We understand it is a good methodological resource to interpret what is happening in education system...

Authors: Ángel San Martín Alonso and Ángel García del Dujo

From massive access to cooperation: lessons learned and proven results of a hybrid xMOOC/cMOOC pedagogical approach to MOOCs

The low completion rate for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), averaging 10 % across total enrolment, highlights a need for close analysis of the underlying formative model. The methodology used here involve...

Authors: Ángel Fidalgo-Blanco, María Luisa Sein-Echaluce and Francisco José García-Peñalvo

The use of wiki to promote students’ learning in higher education (Degree in Pharmacy)

Nowadays, the expansion of new technologies in developed countries requires their inclusion in the higher educational systems, focused on the development of new skills to promote a continuous and independent l...

Authors: M. Encarnación Camacho, M. Dora Carrión, Mariem Chayah and Joaquín M. Campos

The influence of the internet for pedagogical innovation: using twitter to promote online collaborative learning

This article analyses a practice of formative peer-assessment based on an experience in university teaching innovation. From a review of the literature on feedback for self-regulation, the traits of formative ...

Authors: Maite Fernández-Ferrer and Elena Cano

The flipped classroom model at the university: analysis based on professors’ and students’ assessment in the educational field

We find ourselves in the era of a new paradigm of education, in which learning ceases to be an internal and individual activity and becomes an activity performed collectively, critically, in participation with...

Authors: Òscar Flores, Isabel del-Arco and Patricia Silva

E-assessment process: giving a voice to online learners

Considering the expansion of active pedagogies that consider the student as the centre of the teaching and learning process, their role during the assessment process cannot be overlooked. That implies a change...

Authors: Teresa Romeu Fontanillas, Marc Romero Carbonell and Montse Guitert Catasús

Using e-Assessment to enhance student learning and evidence learning outcomes

Authors: Geoffrey Crisp, Lourdes Guàrdia and Mathew Hillier

Using comparative judgement and online technologies in the assessment and measurement of creative performance and capability

In this paper we argue that comparative judgement delivered by online technologies is a viable, valid and highly reliable alternative to traditional analytical marking. In the past, comparative judgement has b...

Authors: Pina Tarricone and C. Paul Newhouse

Written peer-feedback to enhance students’ current and future learning

Spanish universities are engaged in the implementation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). This process implies the use of the most effective instructional designs and methodologies in order to achie...

Authors: Georgeta Ion, Aleix Barrera-Corominas and Marina Tomàs-Folch

Aligning learning outcomes and assessment methods: a web tool for e-learning courses

A learning outcome approach to teaching and a learning-oriented assessment are increasingly framing higher education. In an attempt to facilitate professors’ teaching activities, the TALOE (Time to Assess Lear...

Authors: Inés Gil-Jaurena and Sandra Kucina Softic

Tertiary student attitudes to invigilated, online summative examinations

The outcomes of a trial implementation of an invigilated, online examination at a regional university in Australia and their implications for online education providers are discussed. Students in a first year ...

Authors: Rosalind James

The impact of usable system for regression analysis in higher education

In Mexico, both universities and professors are changing the teaching-learning process in order to improve the conditions that prevail in the classroom. These modifications are making instructors include the u...

Authors: Ricardo Adán Salas-Rueda

Analizying MOOCs from an educational perspective in Spain

This article is the result of a Teaching Innovation Project funded by the University of Cantabria’s Vice-Rectorate for Teaching Staff. Its goals are to analyze the phenomenon of MOOCs with pedagogical criteria...

Authors: Adelina Calvo Salvador and Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos

Delphi study for the design and validation of a questionnaire about digital competences in higher education

The study of digital competence remains an issue of interest for both the scientific community and the supranational political agenda. This study uses the Delphi method to validate the design of a questionnair...

Authors: Santiago Mengual-Andrés, Rosabel Roig-Vila and Josefa Blasco Mira

Initial evidence to validate an instructional design-derived evaluation scale in higher education programs

Instructional design has been a key strategy in ensuring the quality of higher education; therefore, it is essential to evaluate its effects on learning processes through the use of tools that comply with defi...

Authors: Tania Moreira-Mora and Julia Espinoza-Guzmán

Educational innovation and digital competencies: the case of OER in a private Venezuelan university

The challenge for universities in developing countries of Latin America is to provide quality education and to promote the development of the digital competencies necessary for an active citizenship. Neverthel...

Authors: Marcella Solange Prince Machado, Gloria Concepción Tenorio Sepúlveda and Maria Soledad Ramirez Montoya

Applying action research in CAD teaching to improve the learning experience and academic level

A project involving innovation in university education is described in this paper. It was implemented in a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) course on the Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design and Product Developme...

Authors: Veronica Gracia-Ibáñez and Margarita Vergara

Network analysis for the study of technological collaboration in spaces for innovation. Science and technology parks and their relationship with the university

Universities have become a strategic element in the innovation process. Knowledge-based innovation makes them key players for the economic and social development of their environment. This article discusses ho...

Authors: Mariona Farré-Perdiguer, Mercè Sala-Rios and Teresa Torres-Solé

Academic and research networks management: challenges for higher education institutions in Mexico

Social and economic development of countries or regions requires advances in science, technology and education. To accomplish this goal, governments have taken the decision of connecting, through the Internet,...

Authors: Adriana Valencia Valencia and María del Carmen Trejo Cázares

Learning/training video clips: an efficient tool for improving learning outcomes in Mechanical Engineering

An innovative blended-learning strategy is presented for the subject Laboratory of Elasticity and Strength of Materials, based on the use of different tools combining face-to-face methods with e-learning technolo...

Authors: Silvia De la Flor López, Francesc Ferrando and Albert Fabregat-Sanjuan

Development and evaluation of the team work skill in university contexts. Are virtual environments effective?

Soft skills refer to those personal competencies affecting the way we interact with people and they include aspects such as communication, listening, negotiating, team work, leadership, ethics, commitment, etc...

Authors: Mercedes García García, Chantal Biencinto López, Elvira Carpintero Molina, Eva Expósito Casas and Yovanni A. Ruiz Morales

Learning strategies and styles as a basis for building personal learning environments

This paper presents the results and reflections from a study conducted on students using the e-learning mode from the Panamerican University Foundation. The aim of the study was to identify learning strategies...

Authors: Blanca J. Parra

A framework for assessing fitness for purpose in open educational resources

Despite all the benefits claimed for open education resources (OER), studies reveal that these are used less than anticipated. One reason for this is potential users’ uncertainty over whether the products’ aim...

Authors: Insung Jung, Teruyoshi Sasaki and Colin Latchem

Game-based learning and gamification in initial teacher training in the social sciences: an experiment with MinecraftEdu

This study analyzes the application of game-based learning and gamification using MinecraftEdu, which allows for an exploration of the possibilities regarding immersive learning environments. We analyze the co...

Authors: Ramón Cózar-Gutiérrez and José Manuel Sáez-López

New era and challenges for a consolidated journal in educational technology in higher education

Authors: Josep M. Duart and Rosalind James

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Authors: Josep M. Duart and Rosalind James

Temporal learning analytics visualizations for increasing awareness during assessment

Visual representations of student-generated trace data during learning activities help both students and instructors interpret them intuitively and perceive hidden aspects of these data quickly. In this paper,...

Authors: Zacharoula Papamitsiou and Anastasios A. Economides

Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics: differences, similarities, and time evolution

Technological progress in recent decades has enabled people to learn in different ways. Universities now have more educational models to choose from, i.e., b-learning and e-learning. Despite the increasing opp...

Authors: Laura Calvet Liñán and Ángel Alejandro Juan Pérez

Teaching methodology used in the master’s degree programme for secondary education teacher training: student assessment

This study analyses future secondary school teachers’ perceptions of the teaching methodology used in a teacher training master’s degree programme. A descriptive study was designed and the data were collected ...

Authors: María del Carmen Pegalajar Palomino

Methodological proposal for the application of international benchmarking in order to assess the quality of virtual higher education

This research focuses on providing a benchmarking methodology that allows any university offering virtual education (e-learning or b-learning) to compare itself to the best international universities in order ...

Authors: Renata Marciniak

Twitter as a resource to evaluate the university teaching process

The widespread use of social networks among college students has an excellent potential for academic purposes. The university has in its own students an important source of information that can be used to eval...

Authors: Jonatan García Suárez, Carmen Trigueros Cervantes and Enrique Rivera García

Assessing the impact of the “Entrepreneurs” education programme on participants’ entrepreneurial intentions

The study of students’ entrepreneurial intentions and the influencing factors is especially relevant for the development of education programmes, as is the monitoring of those programmes to assess whether they...

Authors: Cristina Díaz-García, Francisco Sáez-Martínez and Juan Jiménez-Moreno

Digital literacy for teachers in Cuban Tourism and Hotel Management Schools. Some experiences on its development

Digital literacy for teachers has been a widely studied topic in recent years, and several studies have been conducted featuring student-oriented ICT competency models and frameworks. This research aims to dev...

Authors: Raidell Avello Martínez and Raúl López Fernández